L’Irlanda è la terza popolazione in più rapida crescita (%) in Europa, 2024-2025

Hmm…. Hmmm…….

Seeing that the 2 countries ahead of us are Tax havens and the continuous stories of the wealth and millionaire flight from the UK, get ready to be priced out of any affordable housing for a generation

Yeah, good thing we have the housing and services to support that growth

I’ve just started reading a book (shocker) written in 1917 by Margaret Skinnider that says:

>Ireland had had a population of nine millions. To-day there are only four millions of Irish in Ireland, a country that could easily support five times that number in ease and comfort.

I thought that was interesting given the stance in some quarters today.

For all of the years available in this data set, save for 2017, 2022, and 2023, Ireland was in the top 5 countries for population growth.

Given this is in the context of Europe, the descriptor should really be “third least slowly growing”

Think of all the doctors and engineers we have gotten!

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People want to move here because we’re kind and we generally look after each other. The reason we do that is because our communities are tightly knit and education is the highest in the world (the only country where a college degree is the majority).

This gives us extraordinary leverage to recruit the best talent.

That will not work in our favour unless we can be selective about who comes into the country.

This is a conversation that the extremes want to hijack. On one side are the racists, on the other are those who want to call anyone racist who doesn’t allow everyone.

The rest of us should consider sensible policies. 

For example, the open visa program for Brazilians makes zero sense. It drives wages down for locals who would otherwise reasonably receive living wages, especially in the service trades. On the other side, we have too many people without skills or even ability to work coming in and abusing the asylum process.

We should be, in my opinion, accepting the very best of the best in trades that require skill and where there’s a serious gap that cannot be filled domestically (not just because of wages). This includes medical staff and building trades.

Otherwise, it should be hard to come into the country. It should be low supply and high demand. New Zealand uses this advantageously to recruit top talent.

We should be aiming to stabilise population growth. Growth in of itself is not a positive thing.

The birth rate continues to fall. The population is growing at a dangerous rate. We don’t have the houses to home people, doctor and dentist capacity to treat people, school and creche places to educate and care for children. We’re racing into a disaster and our legislators are acting like we are prosperous enough to figure it out before the whole thing goes kaput.

Immigration absolutely needs to be put on hold until the housing crisis is no longer a crisis. Anyone who disagrees is simply a virtue signalling.

Be interesting to see reproduction rates

Source?

Asking because when I try to find a similar list it shows me the EU relative growth chart from 2004 till 2024 so over a 20 year period… it also doesn’t have lichtenstein because they are EEA not EU. Instead the top 3 are Luxembourg, Malta and Ireland… so without a source I can’t help but assume someone badly copied that 20 year chart, claimed it was 1 year and confused Luxembourg with lichtenstein.